Book Breaks with Keidrick Roy on American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism

Date & Time: August 31, 2025, 02:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Sedition: How America's Constitutional Order Emerged from Violent Crisis [Book]

American Dark Age reveals how defenders of racial hierarchy embraced America’s resemblance to medieval Europe. It also tells the stories of the abolitionists who exposed that racial hierarchy as a glaring blemish on the national conscience: Frederick Douglass, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Hosea Easton, and Harriet Jacobs.

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